tools: preserve make errors, ignore empty output

[sheet.git] / Makefile

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index fb804a8ca2496116850511a62e65f6bc6e16d80d..85fc990f3abd1d59e0b49fa3893906f817c13e58 100644 (file)
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ download: data/DerivedAge.txt data/rfc1345.txt data/xorg-compose data/countryInf
 .PHONY: download
 
 # atomically create file by command
-cmdsave = @echo $1 $2 \>$@; $1 $2 | sponge $@
+cmdsave = @echo $1 $2 \>$@; mispipe '$1 $2' 'ifne sponge $@'
 # download git checkout
 gitsave = @if cd $@ 2>/dev/null; \
        then echo git pull $@; git pull -q --ff-only || true; \